Surname: Lewis Forename(s): John Delaware b. 1828. d. 31 July 1884. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet and translator. Pseudonyms: “John Smith,” “J. D. L.,” and “John Smith of Smith
Hall, gent.” Born in St. Petersburg, Russia. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge,
and Lincoln’s Inn. Married Teresa Clarke-Jervoise on 6 January 1868. Liberal MP for
Devonport, Devon (1868-1874). Became a Justice of the Peace for for Devon and Hampshire
and served as a lieutenant in the Pembrokeshire artillery militia. Author of Sketches of Cantabs (1849), Across the Atlantic (1851), and Science and Revelation (1871). Translator of the works of Juvenal and Pliny in D. J. Juvenalis Satirae (1882) and The Letters of the Younger Pliny (1879). Biographical information: Lohrli 343, ODNB. (AC, CC)